Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: somber
- Amharic: dismal
- Arabic: كئيبة
- Azerbaijani: tutqun
- Bashkir: ҡараңғы
- Belarusian: змрочны
- Bulgarian: мрачен
- Bengali: অন্ধকারময়
- Bosnian: tužan
- Catalan: trista
- Cebuano: itsa
- Czech: tristní
- Welsh: digalon
- Danish: trist
- German: düster
- Greek: μελαγχολική
- Esperanto: malĝoja
- Spanish: deprimente
- Estonian: masendav
- Basque: partidua
- Persian: دلتنگ
- Finnish: synkkä
- French: lamentable
- Irish: brónach
- Scottish Gaelic: dismal
- Galician: triste
- Gujarati: ઉદાસ છે
- Hebrew: עגום
- Hindi: निराशाजनक
- Croatian: mračan
- Haitian: patisipasyon de
- Hungarian: lehangoló
- Armenian: մռայլ
- Indonesian: suram
- Icelandic: dapurlegur
- Italian: lugubre
- Japanese: 暗い
- Javanese: dismal
- Georgian: იმედი
- Kazakh: мрачный
- Khmer: សង្វេគ
- Kannada: ನಿರಾಶಾದಾಯಕ
- Korean: 력
- Kyrgyz: мрачный
- Latin: dismal
- Luxembourgish: düster
- Lao: dismal
- Lithuanian: niūrus
- Latvian: drūms,
- Malagasy: mampahonena
- Mari: шӱлыкан
- Maori: ratou kanohi
- Macedonian: лош
- Malayalam: മോശം
- Mongolian: бүрхэг
- Marathi: घसरत
- Hill Mari: пӹцкӓтӓ
- Malay: suram
- Maltese: ħażina
- Burmese: လုပ်ပေးဖို့
- Nepali: dismal
- Dutch: somber
- Norwegian: dystert
- Punjabi: ਨਿਰਾਸ਼ਾਜਨਕ
- Papiamento: dependiente
- Polish: ponury
- Portuguese: sombrio
- Romanian: sumbru
- Russian: мрачный
- Sinhalese: අඳුරු
- Slovak: neutešený
- Slovenian: žalostna
- Albanian: e mjerë
- Serbian: суморна
- Sundanese: dismal
- Swedish: dyster
- Swahili: mabaya
- Tamil: படுமோசமாக
- Telugu: దుర్భరమైన
- Tajik: мрачный
- Thai: หดหู่มากเลยนะครั
- Tagalog: nakakalungkot
- Turkish: kasvetli
- Tatar: караћгы тљстђге
- Udmurt: пеймыт
- Ukrainian: похмурий
- Urdu: مایوس کن
- Uzbek: dismal
- Vietnamese: ảm đạm
- Xhosa: dismal
- Yiddish: וויסט
- Chinese: 令人沮丧
Synonyms, close and similar words for dismal
- sombre
- gloomy
- macabre
- sullen
- morose
- tenebrous
- grim
- dystopian
- somber
- drear
- morbid
- cloudy
- dour
- solemn
- glum
- saturnine
- sadly
- bleak
- joyless
- downcast
- moody
- melancholy
- dreary
- downbeat
- cheerless
- sad
- murky
- desolate
- mirthless
- comfortless
- disconsolate
- rueful
- tearful
- depressing
- depressive
- lurid
- ominous
- sinister
- dark
- black
- blue
- mournful
- lugubrious
- sorrowful
- terrible
- awful
- eerie
- execrable
- dire
- lousy
- drab
- heartbreaking
- dull
- sorry
- pathetic
- forlorn
- miserable
- wretched
- despondent
- godforsaken
- horrible
- dingy
- sunless
- lonesome
- lonely